---
title: "Update a contact"
method: PATCH
path: "/v1/contacts/{id}"
tags: ["Contacts"]
---

# Update a contact

`PATCH /v1/contacts/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.revdesk.com`
- URL: `https://api.revdesk.com/v1/contacts/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Updates a contact's name, email, company, or metadata. Fields omitted from the body are left unchanged; pass null to clear a nullable field. The phone number is immutable — create a new contact instead.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `name` string
  - `email` string, nullable
  - `company` string, nullable
  - `metadata` object, nullable

## Response `200`

Success

- object
  - `data` object, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `name` string, required
    - `phone_number` string, nullable, required
    - `email` string, nullable, required
    - `status` string, required
    - `source` string, required
    - `metadata` unknown, required
    - `created_at` string, required
    - `updated_at` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation error
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not found
- `409`: Conflict (incl. idempotency conflicts)
- `429`: Rate limited

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/revdesk/apis/revdesk-v1-api/revisions/fcbd43530a48?raw)